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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (95870)	4/23/2003 11:06:51 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

John, they are not "going it alone". They are assembling coalitions and using diplomacy. What did Bush waste six months in the UN getting ambushed by Chirac's folie de grandeur for, if he was "going it alone"? Their view of forming coalitions is hardly coalition formation; it's more "going alone" and picking up some followers here and there for assorted reasons. Not partnerships; not coalitions; just force. As for the remainder of your post, it simply misses the point. So long as the US insists that all international arrangements have to fit their own narrow self interests only and no negotiations possible; so long as they, quite obviously, aim to dismantle the entire panoply of international institutions which have grown up in the last fifty to sixty years without replacements in mind; just so long will Zakaria's comment be the most relevant. All foreign policy issues are viewed by the rest of the world as first of all about US exercise of power. Not about the issue itself.